Daryl Steiner of Steiner and Granger Financial Services, presented a workshop focusing on Affordable Care Act updates. The workshop followed Friday's chamber breakfast. For more information click on Steiner and Granger's website.
Bluffton University will honor an activist, an artist, a diplomat and a retired economics professor at its annual alumni awards banquet on Homecoming weekend. The Commons, in Marbeck Center, will be the site at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11.
Lenna Mae Gara, who attended Bluffton in 1948-49, is this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Service Award, presented to alumni who have dedicated their lives to heartfelt service to people, community or church.
Activities are planned in many locations in the 10th annual Bluffton Fall Festival on Saturday, Sept. 28.
The community-wide festival offers lots of family-oriented events, free and open to the public, according to Daren Lee of Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio, who coordinates the festival.
Dr. Alex Sider, an associate professor of religion at Bluffton University, will address “The Ethics of Doing History for Theology” in a campus colloquium at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Sider is Bluffton’s Harry and Jean Yoder Scholar in Bible and Religion. That five-year appointment—made last fall—provides him with annual funds to support scholarly research and writing in areas related to Anabaptist-Mennonite life and thought.
Two groups of Bluffton University students will relate their cross-cultural experiences from last spring during campus forums at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24, in Founders Hall. The presentations are free and open to the public.
Recounting their experiences at the 11 a.m. session will be Daila Moore and Natalie Nikitas, who were part of Bluffton’s Pitseng Internet Project in Botswana; Cory Rohrbacher and Kristen Satchwell, who went to San Antonio; Dylan Mathews and Victoria Watkins, Gulf Coast (New Orleans); and Kayla Mullenhour and Elizabeth Webb, Trinidad.
